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Is Alaska a big outlier inside the US regarding equality? Because the US as a whole is nowhere near the level of Norway in terms of equality. As a matter of fac
by cambalache 7y ago
Is Alaska a big outlier inside the US regarding equality? Because the US as a whole is nowhere near the level of Norway in terms of equality. As a matter of fact Russia has a lower Gini coefficient. Even in the Americas US is below Canada, Uruguay, Argentina among other and almost parity with Venezuela.
The problem in Venezuela is that the state has been weak and ineffective. Weak != Small, you have this suffocating bureaucracy which does nothing.
- jdm2212 7y agoOil today, or fertile agricultural land 150 years ago, doesn't make government big or small. It just frees whoever controls the natural resource from accountability to others and lets them do whatever they want to do. Putin wants to run a superpower, so he pours the oil money into a bigger defense budget than Russia's GDP justifies. Maduro is (notionally) a socialist and pours the oil money into a bloated bureaucracy.